Show star vist athe atae bat again k jane has preference ato the bitter end by virginia vale J HE presidents so son n plans T TO to give us a mystery pi picture c made from one of the best mystery plays ever written as the first release of hi his is globe productions itts its the bat by mary roberts rinehart and avery hopwood and has everything that ja a thriller should have it was filmed by mary Pick fords company in 1926 and done again as the bat whispers in 1931 norman foster will direct the new version hard on the heels of her scrap with warner brothers over her refusal to appear in married pretty and poor jane bryan showed the studio that she preferred to be married pretty and rich she announced her engagement to justin W dart who is general manager of a drug firm mickey rooney may rank first at the box offices of motion picture theaters in this country but in great britain and ireland he comes second with deanna durbin pushing him out of first place she was not among the first ten in this country if you are devoted to the story the light that failed like the picture version which sticks to the original even to the urt unhappy happy ending if its ronald colman tather rather than the story chos response b na VM RONALD COLMAN ble for your interest in the picture enjoy it hugely for he gives an excellent performance so do walter huston dudley digges and ida lupino miss bliss lupina has had a hard time of it in hollywood she was put into parts and kept there now that at last she had been given a chance to show what she could do with a real role she had made the most of it hers is rather like the one in of human bondage that established bette davis as a dramatic actress miss lupinos performance is is good enough to do as much for her no longer can she be thought of as just one of those pretty blondes who are so numerous in the picture mak ing metropolis jf youre interested in the present activities of former radio favorites heres news of some same of them jimmy melton is now known as james melton and is a concert singer morton downey wound up his summer engagement at the worlds fair and followed it with an equally successful one in a hollywood night club sam is making money by making recordings jessica Drag onnette makes occasional appearances on the air and when you see Gul livers travels hear her voice vera van leah ray and annette henshaw have retired del courtney who features candid camera music over NBC has borrowed an idea from the movies in his presentation of previews of his forthcoming foith coming programs before concluding his broadcasts he plays a few bars of some of the new tunes tune S to be featured on the next program ram its a novel idea and will proba probably bly be widely copied by bandleaders band leaders who dont hesitate to imitate their more successful brethren ODDS AND ENDS the new york fum critics picked 11 heights eights us as best picture its a little nore more than twenty six years since cecil IS de mills sumuel goldwyn and jesse lasky began filming the squaw man alan the first motion picture made in hollywood released by western newspaper unica Uri lost |